22.10.2021

THE PANDEMIC HIT YOUNG PEOPLE HARDEST ON THE LABOR MARKET

The pandemic has hit young people hardest in terms of the labor market. Statistics from the International Labor Organization show that if the decline in employment for the elderly population is between three and four percent, for young people it is almost nine percent. This was said by the President of the Economic and Social Council (ESC) Zornitsa Rusinova at the youth forum #BeEurope, organized by ESC.

There is currently growing youth unemployment in Bulgaria, and we have a more significant problem with young people who are neither in employment nor in work, Rusinova said.

According to the chairman of ESC, the problems of young people should be heard, because at the moment there is a worrying trend of pupils and students who study online for almost two years and are deprived of the opportunity to communicate with friends, teachers, seniors, peers, to have group and practical activities. It is important to talk about how this will affect the future of young people, said the chairman of ESC.

Rusinova called on the participants in the forum to tell about their first job and specified that as a student she worked as an English teacher, which taught her many things.